The provocative French intellectual promotes a radical body politics that shows us how we must think and act to live well.
Michael Onfray passionately defends the potential of hedonism to resolve the dislocations and disconnections of our melancholy age. In a sweeping survey of history's engagement with and rejection of the body, he exposes the sterile conventions that prevent us from realizing a more immediate, ethical, and embodied life. He then lays the groundwork for both a radical and constructive politics of the body that adds to debates over morality, equality, sexual relations, and social engagement, demonstrating how philosophy, and not just modern scientism, can contribute to a humanistic ethics.
"A highly original contribution to the literature, A Hedonist Manifesto is a short, yet wide-ranging text that attempts to develop a post-Christian, post-Platonist, post-idealist ethical framework. I read it with great interest and enjoyment." Levi Bryant, Collin College
Michel Onfray is a French philosopher and public intellectual who founded and teaches at the free Popular University of Caen. He has written more than sixty books, many of them bestsellers, including Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and the award-winning Sculpting the Self.
Joseph McClellan earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University and has taught Asian and Western philosophy and religion at several universities.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Translator's Introduction
Preface
Part I. An Alternative Method
1. A Philosophical Side Path
2. Bodily Reason
3. A Philosophical Life
Part II. An Elective Ethics
4. An Atheological Morality
5. A Rule of Immanent Play
6. A Hedonist Intersubjectivity
Part III. Solar Erotics
7. The Ascetic Ideal
8. A Libertarian Libido
9. Carnal Hospitality
Part IV. A Cynical Aesthetic
10. An Archipelagic Logic
11. A Psychopathology of Art
12. A Playful Art
Part V. A Promethean Bioethics
13. De-Christianized Flesh
14. An Art of Artifice
15. The Faustian Body
Part VI. Libertarian Politics
16. Mapping Poverty
17. Hedonist Politics
18. A Practice of Resistance
Notes
Index
Klappentext
The provocative French intellectual promotes a radical body politics that shows us how we must think and act to live well.
